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The Drudge Report has reported a rumour that The Two Towers is already available on the internet. WinMX and Kazaa carry several files purporting to be some version of the film, however they all appear to be fakes. Thanks to Sir Mordred, Moses and several other Barliman's chatters for helping me check these files out.

Why is Slashdot posting tripe like Buffy's New Season when it could be posting real news... Such as:

2002-09-02 05:11:18 LotR: The Two Towers hits net months before release (articles,movies) (rejected)
In what has to be one of the startling security breaches in Hollywood to date, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers has hit the net FOUR MONTHS ahead of it's intended release in theaters according to the Drudge Report, though there is still some question of what was actually obtained and how. If this can be confirmed or denied, it's here on Slashdot.

Or...

2002-09-02 05:20:54 RIAA site hit yet again by disgruntled hackers (articles,music) (rejected)
The RIAA has been hit for a third time in a one month's span as file-sharing fans hacked the RIAA hompage and altered it's content over the holiday weekend. Previous attacks include a DoS assault and a similar alteration. The story and alterations can be found at the MP3 Newswire.

Sure, I'm a tiny bit chapped, but the main portion of my fustration has been replaced with the need to prove how big of hacks and chumps these editors are. Even that -1 I'll be getting doesn't make any difference. I'll tell you when my karma dips below Excellent, kay?

Why is Slashdot posting tripe like Buffy's New Season when it could be posting real news... Such as:

2002-09-02 05:11:18 LotR: The Two Towers hits net months before release (articles,movies) (rejected)
In what has to be one of the startling security breaches in Hollywood to date, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers has hit the net FOUR MONTHS ahead of it's intended release in theaters according to the Drudge Report, though there is still some question of what was actually obtained and how. If this can be confirmed or denied, it's here on Slashdot.

Or...

2002-09-02 05:20:54 RIAA site hit yet again by disgruntled hackers (articles,music) (rejected)
The RIAA has been hit for a third time in a one month's span as file-sharing fans hacked the RIAA hompage and altered it's content over the holiday weekend. Previous attacks include a DoS assault and a similar alteration. The story and alterations can be found at the MP3 Newswire.

Sure, I'm a tiny bit chapped, but the main portion of my fustration has been replaced with the need to prove how big of hacks and chumps these editors are. Even that -1 I'll be getting doesn't make any difference. I'll tell you when my karma dips below Excellent, kay?

Found these via Drudge...

Special Court Rejects Ashcroft Rules and Secret Court Rebuffs Ashcroft (related to the main story).

And from the second story... "The department discovered the misrepresentations and reported them to the FISA court beginning in 2000.".. which means the improper actions occured before 2000.. i.e. Before Bush. So Bush/Ashcroft are not responsible for those infractions.

Having said that (and despite being a conservative), I do hope these revalations reign in some of the trampling of civil liberties Ashcroft/Bush are considering. I fully understand their desire to fight terrorism, and I understand some liberties we were used to in the past may be crimped in the process. But eliminated? Virtually removed? A number of their proposals (and some things currently put in place) are simply troubling and I hope this is a wake-up call they cannot simply trample over the Constitution in the name of protecting the public. Freedom is not without its risks, either to those who defend it or the society which enjoys it. We all simply need to be aware of that risk and vigilant in our own way to insure we don't lose our freedom to either the terrorist, the criminal or our own government.

(and no, I don't get my music via gnutella either)

-'fester

I submitted this story yesterday morning, as it was breaking over at the Drudge Report. The article there said that people could actually type about 40 words per minute this way, which is a slow down for most of us, but for those not accustomed to qwerty it would be a great, easy way to enter text. My only problem is that this system uses sort of a word guessing technology, such that it would be a pain in the ass if I wanted to enter, say, A$fg^bnp4+ or some other random string, for possibly a password or a software key.

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As of 7:00 EDT, Drudge Report has a link to it. That's probably what "slashdotted" it.

Better Link

-VG

USAToday.com got defaced with anti-Bush and anti-Christianity messages according to the Drudge Report. (Note: That page used to link to a report about the defacement, but now it seems like it was overwritten with some news from 2000... see drudgereport.com for more details, or let's hope they catch their mistake and re-update that link.)

USAToday.com got defaced with anti-Bush and anti-Christianity messages according to the Drudge Report. (Note: That page used to link to a report about the defacement, but now it seems like it was overwritten with some news from 2000... see drudgereport.com for more details, or let's hope they catch their mistake and re-update that link.)

Where are today's Woodward and Bernstein?

.. is there no one but me who believes this pic in the corner is very much alike scat dog porn? Or perhaps urinating dog. Shame on you lucas. You nasty boy.

Balanced reporting, and they often scoop the Big Players too.

• World Net Daily
• Drudge Report
• News Max
• Townhall
• Lucianne
• Jewish World Review
• Front Page Magazine
• Cybercast News Service

Fox has pretty good, balanced news, too.

I tried using it for day to day browsing. I'd like to not use IE, but I'm pretty much stuck keeping it open when I use Mozilla so I can cut and paste links that Mozzilla can't handle.

The first bug that just drives me nuts is that when Mozilla can't find an image it pops a window up that must be clicked before I can continue. I have my hosts file mapping certain urls to localhost. So if I go on a page with lots of advertising I have to close 4 or 5 windows that shouldn't be there.

I like to read Drudgereport.com but Mozilla for whatever reason has coniptions trying to render that page.

I've also found myself having to manually dig and find plug-ins that will work with Mozilla. Even Flash, which is probably the most used plug-in on the net made downloading it bothersome. I had to go the the Macromedia web page, search for the plug-in, download an .exe, and then run it. On IE all I have to do is go to a web page with Flash, and it asks me if I want to download it, if I say yes it auto downloads and isntalls for me with just one button click.

I also have other weird bugs with Mozilla, such as not being able to type an address into the menu bar. I have to shut down Mozilla and restart it to clear it.

Disney has been creative with the accounting...

From drudge:

"DRUDGE: Sony keeps shot of NYC Twin Towers in upcoming 'SPIDER-MAN' film.... World Trade buildings shown in reflection of Spider-Man's eyes, studio sources reveal.... Developing... "

link

that there will be actual news today, but I wont know till tomorrow, because I'm about to turn my computer off and go run and hide. Thank god Drudge didn't succumb.

Sharon should be dragged to the Hague and made a cell-mate to Milosevic! Fucking war criminal.

You don't know of enough tech sites to claim that "almost every tech site" banded together on something. No one does.

No, asshole, Matt Drudge broke the Lewinsky story after Newsweek sat on it for months.

The Drudge Report - Hey, he links to the important and interesting stuff in the mainstream media and breaks the stuff they won't report. What's not to like?

Stratfor.com - Great, clean analysis that is hard to find elsewhere. Drawback - has one free article each day on their site; full access requires a subscription of $80-$120. Still cheaper than ignorance or Jane's.

Debka.com - Provides interesting intel on the Middle-East from an Israeli perspective.

Anyone else have any favorite newshound/intel links?

Read this story... damn, she's busted! She worked for PBS and was a judge on the Pultizer Prize. [see above Drudge Rpt story]

They have to play nice so that they won't be labelled unamerican like Sorkin who dares to say the truth about GWB.

I really don't know why people are so excited about some site that gets linked to here gets "slashdotted" if there are 250,000 hits per day, while Drudge gets 3.6M hits per day and anything he links to will be "Drudged" by that figure tenfold!

You all are deluding yourself when you think that you can "slashdot" any site out there.

Quite frankly, the few of his own reports he does post nowadays are right far more often than they're wrong. A typical pattern is that he posts a quick paragraph or two about something, then a few days later he'll link to some story in the Washington Post about it saying the exact same thing.

One of the best things he does nowadays is simply scan the foreign or lesser-known news wires or services for interesting or important stories that haven't broken in the US yet.

"Breaking News" on CNN.com is a joke, especially since the pink slips in their internet department. If you want to know what's breaking *now*, visit Drudge. There's a reason the site gets 40 hits/second.

ROFL, I think it is so funny that everything that is computer or science related shows up here a day later than it does on the Drudge Report.

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Texas man sexually tortured for days in small Nebraska town
Fri Jan 18 2002 11:39:56 ET

A Texas man was sexually tortured and held against his will for nine days inside a downtown flower shop by its owner in Wayne, Nebraska, it was reported on Friday.

Business owner Roger Van, 55, is accused of luring 36-year-old Jonathan Cooper of Houston to the small college town last month via the Internet to begin a "sadistic bondage" relationship.

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Their relationship included various forms of sex and torture. Authorities would not elaborate. Another man, 36-year-old Jerry Marshall, also participated, said police.

Van and Marshall were charged Thursday with sexual assault, two counts of assault, false imprisonment and terroristic threats after a search warrant was delivered at Van's flower shop.

Marshall helped Cooper escape after nine days in confinement, the AP reported.

Wayne, a community of 5,583 people, is 85 miles northwest of Omaha in northeast Nebraska.

Developing...

...watch for the available content to become more and more dictated by the broadband providers. They had to sink a lot of money into building the networks (billions upon billions of dollar), and expect to recoup the cost somehow. One thing they can do is push their content (and thus the advertising space they sell) on you by limiting access to other sites via slowdowns or other disincentives. Imagine not being to access CBSNews.com or drudgereport.com, but having to get all online news from CNN.com if you're an AOL/Time-Warner company, of which CNN is a part.

This is essentially the argument that Lawrence Lessig makes in his latest book, but I suspect that if you see broadband growth progress slowing with falling profit margins and bigger expenditures to (slowly) expand the network, you'll begin to see this technique used a lot in the future.

...caught Michael Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat, in Washington yesterday and grilled him...
Well, we really have our own little Matt Drudge here, now don't we?

LOL. Slashdot is what is known as "yellow journalism". This site makes indymedia and NewsMax look unbiased.

Anyway, Drudge makes a pretty good news portal. He's got links to everything, and his site's way better than his rep. Plus, he's a little paranoid about everything, just like you seem to be. Peep it.

Preface: I have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm just proposing a theory to provoke thought, that's all.

This whole idea sounds really cool and I'd love to live in a world of hydrogen energy, but I've thought for a long time that alternate energy sources have been developed more extensively than we are allowed to know. The political ties between OPEC, car manufacturers, governments around the world, power plants, etc. seem to me to be so entangling that they could easily, and in my opinion have easily, squashed new ideas for alternate power sources. I've heard of everything from water powered cars to solar panel arrays that are 50 times more effecient than those in use today... yet none of these technologies has been allowed to flourish, and I suspect it has something to do with the trillions of dollars that are hauled in by oil companies and any company associated with them. When you think about it in terms of history, oil is the gold of the modern day. People who have it want to make money off of it, so they want to keep supply down (just enough to get by) and demand up, way up. I have no doubts that the people in the oil industry would do anything and everything to keep it the most valuable substance today, just look at some of the evil that came out of the pursuit of gold.

"NASDA and the Institute for Laser Technology in Tokyo set about joint research development of this system. And it is under application for a patent in cooperation with NASDA, ILT and Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc, which is a private think tank company," Dr. Mori wrote SPACE.com in an email interview.

Now, doesn't it strike you as odd that Mitsubishi has their hands in this? OK so it says "a private think tank company," but really, I think this "private" think tank company named "Mitsubishi" wouldn't resist some "inspiration" by the automotive industry (heavily linked to Big Oil) and somehow sabotage or discredit this research.

Anyway, I'll stop ranting, but I'd like to know if anyone has any facts that go along with what I'm saying or if I've just been reading the Drudge Report too much.

``Reports of a crackdown on religious practitioners in China are deeply troubling,'' Boucher said.

What the fuck?!

We're arresting and segregating people right now because they're of a middle eastern origin and perhaps even (shudder) muslims!

This country is going to hell in a handbasket and fast. All hail the white, christian (protestant only), heterosexual America!

I really don't see how the fact that we still have the U.S. Congress changed Mr. Katz's original point. We haven't revolted or amended the Constitution to eliminate Congress, but we keep much better track of what they are doing now than we used to. Several times in the past few years modern communications have brought citizens together to pressure Congress one way or the other, and reversed a previously all-but-certain outcome. Private citizens have a lot more power than they (we) used to. (True, only as long as enough of us agree on something. But that's democracy for you.)

But, it's not just due to the need to be dry that I dismiss the "revolutionary" hype surrounding this toy -- it's the fact that people already arrange their lives around the automobile. In LA the average commute is 30 mins (which must be grossly skewed by people working from home, because it is nigh-impossible to go anywhere in LA in 30 minutes). People work in central areas but live in increasingly-remote housing areas. As a matter of fact, the fasest growing region in the country is the Inland Empire, a smog-filled, hot-as-hell snake pit (lovely place) east of LA. But the house prices are very low compared to the "beach cities". It's the automobile that makes this commute possible. So, tell me how many people are going to forgo an automobile, with it's creature comforts and potential for travelling a fast speeds, for an 8 mile-an-hour gyroscoping pogo-stick? You'd have to not merely redesign cities but reverse the suburbanization of America to make this a widely-used device. Too many people have invested the next 30 years of income into their home in the (hellish as they may be) suburbs.

And Alan would point out man solved the balance problem long before the gyroscope by adding another wheel. Low tech, but effective.

Don't forget that Ashcroft is rounding up Jewish terrorists as we speak.

It's bad enough how commentary masquerades as news these days, but the biggest problem is the media quoting unreliable, heavily biased, or strictly speculative sources as fact. Just the other day I saw a segment on CNN on sites you might want to check out for more information, including Stratfor, an interesting but mostly speculative independent analysis group, and the perennial clinton-hating Drudge report.

More significantly, they also cited Debkafile, a right-wing Israeli affiliated rumor/news site with the bad habits of:

1) presenting "facts" that later prove to be false, and then not acknowledging them (i.e. they said terrorists shot down that russian plane, when it was later shown to be an errant ukranian missile - they changed the story but did not admit error)

2) basing their headlines and articles entirely on unnamed "Debkafile sources" which they make out to be deep within the upper eschelons of every government in the world (US and China included).

If you follow the TV news closely, you'll see how "news" is making if from web to TV in record time. This needs to stop.

Ah! But with the net, there are many foriegn english-language news sites to glean useful information from, reflecting many points of view. And Druge, of course. It just requires more work and a healthy skepticism while you read.

Solution: Fire Anne Tomlinson.

http://www.drudgereport.com/id.htm at The DrudgeReport says that the Whitehouse is reluctant to make such a move, although the Brits are all for Blair's voluntary (read compulsory) cards.

If I could get rid of my SS card, Passport, Driver's License, Birth Certificate, Student ID, etc. and only need 1 card w/ no thumbprint and no DNA, then I suppose it's alright. ;-) Actually, sounds a bit like that Biblical "Mark of the Beast" if you look at Blair's plans. I guess we might as well give fundy Xians something to get huffy about as well.

Oh well. As far as Ellison's concerned, I know what company I won't be buying from. Hell, I won't even work for a company that uses Oracle software...if I can find one.

The British Home Secretary is considering compulsory identity cards

So is Bush according to Matt Drudge

Yes, enlistment inquiries SOARED the day after the attack (Wedensday Sept. 12), to something like four times the normal level. This is true across the country, not (just?) in New York. Here's a link to an AP Story which was linked Wednesday on the Drudge Report, which has had very good links to breaking stories throughout this whole ugly affair.

yeah, i forgot they don't auto parse http links

Slashdot did provide a very valuable service the day of the attack.

Absolutely!

Take into consideration that during the day at some point all major media web sites died.

I noticed that one other survived: The Drudge Report

Matt's site stayed up when the rest went down. (It also has taken a lot of load in the past, and as a static, hand-edited, HTML page it doesn't have as much potential for database trouble when the going gets rough.) He did a fine job of finding and linking relevant major-media news items as they showed up - and you could often figure out what was up from his summary when the media outlet went down shortly after. He also found stories the US media won't cover - such as the outrage among many Moslems at the attack and a hint at the enormous charitable contributions in Moslem countries for the victims in the US.

But Matt's largely one-man show and dependence on the regular media put him at a disadvantage to Slashdot's fine team and enormous user base - many of whom were on-scene for the events or had expert info to contribute.

Fortunately, comparasons are not necessary. The two outlets complemented each other very well. With Matt to find virtually everything of interest in the old media (and to provide a pipe to keep politically-incorrect stories from being hidden), Slashdot to bring in info the old media miss (and provide ANOTHER pipe for the non-PC), and both sites up throughout (whether through simplicity or heroic effort), internet users who surfed both were some of the best informed people on the planet.

The method of my madness.

1. goto drudgereport.com scan for new news
2. goto cnn.com, then msbnc.com for new news
3. goto Slashdot.org and shacknews.com for new news
4. Get frustrated that there is no new news and turn on the (freakin) tv.
5. Sit in front of the tube, clicker in hand looking for the news I want.
6. Get annoyed that I'm not hearing about shit blowing up in the middle east.
7. goto 1.

yes, i'm going nuts.

-Jon

I don't feel like making any comments... None are necessary. Here are the last few news sites I can find that aren't flooded offline.

Hate to point this out to you, but the IQ test was a hoax/fraud... the Lovenstein Institute doesn't exist. See here (yeah yeah, it's Drudge, the facts remain).

Unblock them.

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Consider it your way of giving back to the sites you visit most.

It's nothing new to be sued over a parody. Large corporations are always testing the limits of how they can stop their trademarks from being used in ways they don't like.

• Commentary: Phil Agre's Election 2000 wrapup, which was sent Dec. 23, 2000, to subscribers to his Red Rock Eater Digest mailing list. No one tears into political jargon and other dissembling rhetoric the way Agre does, and this post-election contribution was widely forwarded around the Net after its publication.
• Feature Journalism: The Bleat by James Lileks, a daily column that's among the best feature writing in any medium, which is more impressive because his subject matter is nothing -- more specifically, the minutiae of his daily life, like movies, moving and odd yearbook discoveries.
• Commentary: Deb Weiss. Though her columns are hosted by the Drudge Report, Weiss is an amateur commentator who graduated from writing letters to the editor, not a professional. Though I disagree with her on every single political issue that matters, I have to admit that in columns like this Oct. 19, 2000, recap of the first Gore-Bush debate, Weiss rips into everyone to the left of Pat Buchanan with style, intelligence and savage wit.